Looking for an easy way to add interest to your latest project? Take a look at Motion Blends and Motion Effects. With 20 plugins and over 200 presets, Motion Blends and Motion Effects will move your scenes and your audiences. Motion Blends features transitions that spin, roll, twist, and twirl to add life to your scenes and engage your viewers, while Motion Effects increases the energy and creates action by blurring, rippling, and warping. It can even simulate an earthquake. Shake things up this summer - give NewBlue Motion Blends and Motion Effects a whirl!
Watch this video to learn how to use Motion Blends to quickly and easily create beautiful animated title wipes.
Because the Motion Blends transitions correctly work with alpha transparency, the same motion oriented transitions from Motion Blends that twist, roll, shake, or otherwise mutate one scene to another can be applied to text letters, with stunning results.
A 20+ year veteran of the film and television world, Lance Bachelder’s recent credits include Steve Oedekerk’s CG comedy feature Barnyard: The Original Party Animals and the hit Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard where he served as Supervising Editor.
Explains Lance,
“We use NewBlueFX to make movies more interesting. These plugins bring originality to our production that is different from other plugins. When we use industry standard plugins, people have already seen the effects, but with NewBlueFX, we get a cool and fresh look.”
Sometimes, you may find yourself looking at an awkward cut between two scenes. There isn’t enough going on in the two shots to explain why we are going from one to the next, yet the progression is necessary for building the story.
For example, we are cutting between a car traveling
Car Scene
Roll, found in the NewBlue Motion Blends collection, is perfect for implying energetic motion as it takes the viewer from one scene to another.
This transition works by scrolling the frame image over and over at an increasingly frenetic pace and then slowing down, to ease into the new image.
Think of a film that loses its registration in the projector and starts flipping by, to ultimately lock back on but with a different scene. Throw in motion blurring and it becomes a very effective technique for moving forward in your story.
